Shutter-bower.



No 812,036. PATENTED FEB. 6, 1906. J. L. GUYON. SHUTTER BOWER.

APPLICATION FILED 0UT.15. 1904.

Elmvewlfoz Wdimmaw UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

are. 812,036.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1906.

Application filed October 15 1904. Serial No. 228,579.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN LEWIS GUYoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Maud, in the county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Shutter-Bowers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to shutter-bowers, and has for its object theproduction of a shutter-bower which is simple of construction, eflicientin use, and comparatively inexpensive of production, and which isadapted to hold the shutters of a window bowed in a variety of positionsand is composed of parts so constructed as to facilitate the operationof connecting or disconnecting them to fasten the shutters or releasethem, so that they may swing fully open or closed.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists of thefeatures of construction, combination, and arrangement of partshereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an interior elevational viewof a window provided with shutters equipped with my invention. Fig. 2 isa perspective view showing the parts of the fastener detached, and Fig.3 is a view showing the pivot-screw and combined Washer and wearplateemployed for pivotally mounting each element of the fastener. I

The bower or fastener comprises bars 1 and 2, each provided at its outerend with an aperture or terminal eye 3 for the passage of a screw 4 tosecure it to a shutter. The screw 4 is provided with a threaded shank 5to enter the base of the sash to which the fastener is to be applied,and a journal portion 6, adapted to occupy the eye 3, to adapt the barto hinge or pivot thereon. In the application of each bar to its shutterI provide a washer 7, which abuts against the shoulder formed by theinner end of the journal 6 and is adapted to bear against the side ofthe shutter, the eye 3 of the bar being mounted between the same and thehead of the screw, so that the washer will serve to prevent mutilationof the shutter as well as to maintain the parts in proper relation. Thejournal portions 6 of the pivot-screws 4 are of greater length than thethickness of the apertured or eyed portion of the bars 1 and 2, thuspermitting said bars to be adjusted to a variety of positions laterallyof or at right angles to the shutters and also to be swung to differentrelative angular positions vertically of the shutters The bar 1 isprovided in its upper edge with a series of notches or seat-recesses 8and at its free end is provided at its upper and lower edges withretaining-hooks 9 and 10, the hooks 9 being disposed at the inner orfree extremity of said bar and the hook 10 at a point below the same andin rear thereof and between the hook 9 and the outer notch 8, thisarrangement of the two hooks providing an intermediate throat or passage11. The inner walls of this passage are formed, respectively, by therear and front faces or edges of the two hooks 9 and 10, which edges orfaces (denoted, respectively, 9 and 10) are beveled, so as to cause thethroat or passage to extend in a plane diagonal to the axis of thebar 1. The bar 2 is provided at its free end with a hook 12, adapted toengage the notches or seat-recesses 8 in the bar 1. This hook 12projects laterally from the bar 2 in a direction opposite to thedirection of exten sion of the hooks 9 and 10 on the bar 1, and the saidhooks 9 and 10 are adapted when the hook 12 is seated in one of thenotches or recesses 8 to respectively embrace the upper and lower edgesof the bar 2 at points in rear of the hook 12 and hold the two barsrigidly connected in alinement.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that v the bars 1 and 2 arepivotally mounted upon the inner sides of the base portions of the twoshutters 13 and 14 in such manner that the free ends thereof are adaptedto project in opposite directions beyond the meeting edges of suchshutters, so that when the bars are connected the free meeting edges ofthe shutters will be firmly held against movement. In connecting theseshutters to hold them fastened in bowed condition the bars 1 and 2 areswung upwardly at an angle and the hooked. end of the bar 2 passedthrough the throat 1 1. of the bar 1, so as to bring the hook 12 inposition to engage the notch 10 of bar 1, and then said bars are swungdownwardly and the shutters inwardly to the desired extent until thehook 12 comes into register with the desired recess 8, when the bars arelowered to a further extent to cause the hook to seat within said recessand the hooks 9 and 10 to engage the upper and lower edges of the bar 2,thus holding said bar against vertical movement and rigidly connectingthe two bars in alinement, so that the shutters cannot swing open orclosed.

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When it is desired to release the shutters to permit them to be swungfully open or closed, the two bars 1 and 2 are again elevated to aninclined position on their pivots until the hook 12 becomes releasedfrom the notch 8 with which it is engaged, and the body of the bar 12 isreleased from the hooks 9 and 10 and lies in the throat or passage 11when, as will be readily understood, the bars may be entirely disengagedto permit the shutters to be swung.

It will be obvious that the throat 11, formed as above described,facilitates the connection and disconnection of the two bars and theinclined or beveled surfaces of the two hooks 9 and 10 obviateinterference with the bar 2, and thus permit the same to be engaged withand disconnected from the bar 1 when the two bars are swung downward orupward on their pivots.

By reason of the fact that the bars 1 and 2 are adapted to swingvertically on the pivotscrews, as well as being free to be adjustedthereon to different angles in a direction at right angles to the planeof the shutters, the shutters may be held bowed in a variety ofpositions, as will be readily understood.

A shutter-bower constructed in accordance with my invention may bemanufactured at small cost, is simple in construction and efficient inoperation, and may be applied in a convenient manner and used withoutmarring or injuring the shutters.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. Ashutter-bower comprising two pivoted bars adjustable on their pivots todifferent inclined positions vertically and laterally with relation tothe shutters, one of said bars being provided with notches or seats andspaced retaining-hooks and the other with a hook to engage said notchesor seats and adapted to be held in alinement with the first-named memberby the retaining-hooks thereon.

2. A shutter-bower comprising two pivoted members adjustable on theirpivots to different'inolined positions with relation to the shutters,one of said members being provided in its upper edge with a series ofkeepers and the other with a latch-hook projecting rearwardly from itsupper edge to engage said keepers to connect the two members together ina variety of positions, the said member having the keepers further beingprovided with forwardly-projecting upper and lower retaining-hooksdisposed in close relation but at difierent distances from the freeextremity of said member, said hooks being adapted to engage thelatch-hook-carrying member when said latch-hook is engaged with one ofthe keepers to hold the members rigidly connected, said retaining-hookshaving their adj acent edges beveled to form an interposed throatextending diagonally to the axis of the keeper member, substantially asand for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN LEWIS GUYON.

WVitnesses:

WILLIAM J. DAVIS, D. LARVE HELLINGS.

